Adam and Eve in Florida
The evening blinks with lightning bugs and rain.
The fennel softens on its stem
and crowns of cabbage palm and hickory
obscure the milky moon. Humidity,
like glue, confines us to our chairs. We sweat
and rock. The heat: a language that the whippoorwill
repeats, repeats. The garden smells of mold,
and air plants look like demons in the oaks.
The wicker gives and takes and creaks while frogs
ignite their throats tonguing jeweled insects
off the tusks of fronds, and isolated
lamps of houses burn behind their curtained
rooms. In this momentary equipoise,
in air too still to stir, we watch the poison
glisten in the snakes.
Ann Wood Fuller was born in Deland, Florida and attended the University of Florida where she took her undergraduate degree in English and literature. She did her post graduate work under the esteemed tutelage of William Logan and Debora Gregor in the department of creative writing at the University of Florida. She has been published in many journals thorough out the U.S and she has attended many conferences where she has read and discussed her work. She is a landscape poet. She lives in an isolated part of the North central woods of Florida in a wooden structure she built herself and where she continue to write. (gatorma1@yahoo.com)